Defining English for Specific Purposes and the Role of the ESP Practitioner
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This paper first defines the 'English for Specific Purposes' (ESP) approach to language teaching in terms of absolute and variable characteristics offered by Dudley-Evans in the plenary speech of the first Japan Conference on English for Specific Purposes. Then, under the headings of teacher, collaborator, course designer and materials provider, researcher, and evaluator proposed by DudleyEvans, a comparison is made between the 'General English' teacher and the so-called ESP practitioner.
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